Changes in the Legislative Council’s order of business can be made to prevent the two Youngspiration lawmakers from taking their oaths again, lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yi has said.

In order to prioritise a motion to debate whether the LegCo president has discretionary power to allow the Youngspiration duo to be sworn in again, the pro-Beijing camp can propose a request to suspend the order of business in LegCo as stated in Article 18 of the Rules of Procedure, lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yi said on Sunday.

Regina Ip addressing the media at an event on Sunday. Photo: SocRec Screenshot.

Article 18 states the standard order of business in LegCo meetings, unless stated otherwise. The first order of business is the administration of oath or affirmation, as stated in the first article.

She and another pro-Beijing lawmaker, Martin Liao Cheung-kong, were also given similar advice, according to Ip.

Ip told the media that “the pro-establishment parties have already written to the president requesting him not to let the oath taking go forward.”

Should the president disregard their request, the pro-establishment parties could move a motion to debate whether the LegCo president has discretionary power to allow oaths to be retaken. “We have every entitlement to move such a motion,” Ip said.

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